SARASOTA COUNTY — North Port second-graders will be among many in Sarasota County to take free swim lessons this year, thanks to a donor to the Gulf Coast Community Foundation.

Last year, Keith Monda and his wife, Linda, of Sarasota, heard about a small nonprofit thrift store providing swimming lessons for children in North County was closing, so would no longer be providing the lessons. The Mondas — Keith is the former president and chief operating officer for Coach, a company specializing in ladies’ handbags — had been looking for a way to give back.

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